Edwin frederick wells



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVIN FREDERICK VELLS, OF CIIRISHALL, (ROYSTON,) COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND.

lNSECT-DESTROYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,022, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed June 16, 1888. Serial No. 277,371. (No model.) Patented in England September 9, 1887, No. 12,256.

To @ZZ whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN FREDERICK IYELLS, engineer, a subject of the Queen of lreat Britai n, resid ingat Chrishall, (Royston),

5 in the county ot' Essex, England, have i11- vented a new and useful Insect-Destroyer, (for which I have obtained provisional protection in Great Britain, No. 12,950, dated September 9, 1887,) ot which the following is a to specification.

M v invention relates to improvements in insect-destroyers which are manipulated with the hand, and has for its object to make the same more eitective by providing means for I 5 minimizing the resistance offered by the air in approaching or str iking the insects. I attain this object by the instrument illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a tront view, Fig. 2 a side view,

zo and Fig. f3 a plan or end view, of the entire instrument.

Similar letters refer to simi lar parts throughout the several views.

This insect-destroyer consists ot' a number 2 5 ot' strips or rods, (l, of suitable material, preferably of cane, fixed into a suitable handle, b. These strips or rods ci. are made very light and thin and fixed into the said handle Z9 so as to t'orm a row, each strip or rod a being a little 3o apart from the other, in order to permit the air to pass between them, thus minimizing the resistance, and consequently preventing the propulsion ot air against the insects i'n the act of approaching or striking the same, which otherwise alarms the insects and causes the 3 5 same to escape. Near the handle b the said strips or rods a are tied or bound together by means of a cord or tapes, c, for the purpose ot' giving the row of rods or strips a therequired stiffness and steadiness.

Vhen the .instrument is not in use, the

, binder d, which otherwise is slid and left in position near the handle b, is moved toward the tree ends of the strips or rods a, (see dotted lines,) and serves to keep the same straight 45 and prevents twisting.

The insect-destroyer is used as follows: It'

a room is infested with flies, wasps, or other winged insects, should they be on the wing, close the door. A few strokes with the in- 5o strument will cut down numbers of them. The rest will settle down on the walls and furniture, and they can then be killed as fast as a person chooses.

U Having now described the nature of my in- 5 5 vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- An insect-destroyer composed of cane strips or rods a, fixed into a handle, b, to form a single row, and having a binder, d, arranged to 6o e slide thereon, all substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

EDVIN FREDERICK VELLS.

IVitnesses EDWIN GooDE, CHARLES FLACK. 

